HT5500 How do I get all my facebook friends OUT of my icloud contacts?

This is a HUGE problem for me. I don't know what setting I change to ull my facebook friend info into my icloud contacts files on all devices, but I want to reverse it and make them gone!!!! GONE I say. If someone thought this was a good idea and it was a universal update, they must have been on LSD. I DO NOT want to look at the names of every person I've ever known when looking for critical numbers to do the business of my life...work, home and family. That obscure person I saw at the the last high school reunion is just clogging up my contacts database and wasting my time. WASTING MY TIME...is that what you want to do apple? Stop changing things just to make them different! If it aint broke, DON't fix it! PLEASE! Ever since Mountain LIon came out I am increasingly annoyed by these nuisance matters that demand my time energy and attention.

So, now that I have voiced my frustration, how do I get these facebook names OUT of my icloud contacts! You tell us how to bring them in, but no where that I can find, how to get them out. It's time to clear this up in a simple, easy to follow set of instructions. Start with, do I do it on my imac or on my iphone, since I suspect it was an iphone setting that caused the problem.

I see no setting on the iphone to reverse this problem. Please direct me.

Thanks to everyone for your replies. I am continually amazed at how specific to each device these settings can be, or at least how specific they can seem. chrisfromgastonia, I did figure out that unchecking contacts in the facebook settings on my iphones solved the bulk of the problem. However, there wasn't a facebook groups to uncheck in my list of groups. Likewise Smith121, there was no facebook account enabled in my contacts application on my computer, so I could not do that. However, I do have another groups related question. Ever since this last update pulled all my facebook contacts into my synchronized contacts, the groups function on my contacts doesn't work anywhere. All that happens is that if I try to access a specific group, the check mark beside the name of the group gets unchecked. I used to be able to select a group and then have the full list of members of the group come up and only those names. No more, there is no accessing the members of the groups, only the names of the groups to look at which does NOTHING AT ALL to help me. Any ideas? Advice?

Well if you have a backup of your phone from before you did the facebook contacts, and it is not to old or you wont lose anything that is important, then you could connect to itunes, click on restore under the summary tab, then restore from your backup. If you have the backup from before facebook contacts issue, then your phone will be restored to the same it was before facebook contacts. But again, you have to have the backup from before this occured.

On my first phone...somehow I was able to do it, I am assuming through contacts because it asked me at the bottom if I wanted to delete FB friends. I don't remember going through the settings. But with this replacement...I can't find the groups tab.

Both of you can go to settings, facebook, tap on your facebook name, then delete the account. Then go to your facebook app and delete it. Then go back into settings, facebook and resign in, this time dont allow the app to have access to your contacts, and dont turn the contacts tab on. Also re download the app and do the same, dont allow access to your contacts.

OK...now I am stuck. I went to setting and deleted my facebook account. Then I deleted the FB app. When I go back to setting to resign in it doesn't give me the option to disable my contacts or calendar. I only have an option to sign in or cancel and it says that signing into FB will download my FB friends to contacts. It does say in setting you can disable contacts but that is only after you sign in. If I go back to settings and try to not allow the contacts...it brings me to the page where I have to sign in.

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